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Sep 16, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read Read on X
💡New Traders Struggle with THREE things. And I'm here to give you a simple solution to #3.

1) Not understanding who is in control of price.

When trading, it is super important to know the larger 'trend' or direction of the market. Even if you're trading a 5 minute chart. Image
2) Most people do not have a solid strategy of identifying WHERE price is headed.

Without knowing where the move may likely end you will have no idea when you should be taking profits or be trading in the COMPLETE wrong direction.

Ever had this happen? Image
3) Trading things they should NOT be trading. Also known as trading 'chop'.

This is the SIMPLEST one to fix and I have the solution for you on the next tweet.
Stop trading things that are STILL INSIDE of the previous bar.

If you are a day trader and the week / day is STILL inside [lower high and higher low]

That is BY DEFINITION. Going sideways.

Swing traders, look to the week & month.

AND.. If you're still itching to trade. Image
We know exactly how to trade this SPECIFIC market condition.

We want to see closes ABOVE old highs or BELOW old lows.

This is because, no one in their right mind looks at this chart & say's it looks bad.

Most new traders would say that's a successful breakout. Image
But since we know the secret of the higher timeframe. We know that the BEST looking chart can turn into the WORST looking chart in a single candle. Image
And since we KNOW it is a consolidation. We KNOW that the other side of the range has a HIGH likelihood of being tested Image
This specific example is what we talked about Thursday afternoon and Friday morning on my twitter.

You can see that here where we go more in depth.

x.com/AlexsOptions/s…
I want to help losing traders make smarter decisions, if you feel this has helped you. Please RETWEET the original tweet. Help out another trader. Until the next one, stay safe & don't hold losers.

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Nov 17, 2025
There's a reason I've learned every strategy including #ICT, Supply & Demand, Elliot Wave, Support / Resistance, EMAs SMAs, Breakout trading, etc.

And I don't use ANY of them as a full time trader.

I'll share everything I know so far about trading after the last 5+ years..

The last thing I share will make you look at every chart in a 100% new way if you've never seen this.Image
Here's some lies and excuses you've heard. You'll find these hilarious by the end of this thread

1)You have to have a bias
2)This only works during certain market conditions
3)You have to lose 10s of thousands of dollars first
4)Algorithms are taking my stops
5)The market makers are screwing me
... the list goes on.

The truth is this..Image
Before you can trade you have to know what price is trying to do.

Not what price WILL do.

What price is trying to do.

Now, that's something that we can do isn't it? Image
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Oct 20, 2025
Every box you see [color irrelevant] is a broadening formation.

This is a new script I've been working on.

🧵 You'll notice a few things... Image
1) Where do these broadening formations start?

They ALL start after making new lows ot a previous bar or multiple bars Image
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2) These broadening formations went back to the upside due to CONTINUITY

All of these occurred with at least weekly continuity if not the 1m 3m 12m charts all confirming the bf to the upside. Image
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Aug 6, 2025
New traders. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

If you are chasing higher win rates you NEED to know this.

🧵 Short Thread Image
1) Risk reward has nothing to do with how the market is going to move.

It is always easier for the market to move 50 cents to your stop versus 2 dollars to your target.

Thus, your stop will always be more likely to be taken than your profit target with standard, single chart analysis.Image
2) The way to fix this is to find an 'edge' aka a place where you have a higher probability of price going in the direction of your target than the direction of your stop.

All of technical analysis is boiled down to this simple idea.
Read 13 tweets
Jun 10, 2025
I started trading 8 years ago. I'm only 22.

This is EVERYTHING I wish I was told when I started.Image
#1 What strategies do

Every strategy is trying to do the same thing, quantify [objectively describe] what the market is doing so that we can find repeating conditions and make money. Allowing us to have a trade idea [where to buy/sell] an invalidation of that idea [where we exit for a loss] and a target [where price is going]

The problem is many strategies rely on subjectivity. Meaning two traders trading a the same strategy can have two differing opinions on what the market is doing and what the market will do next.

Support and resistance traders have differing opinions on what qualifies as support and resistance.

Supply and demand traders have differing opinions on what qualifies as supply or demand zones.

etc.

If your strategy is based on opinion then you'll never be able to reliably identify the same condition over and over and therefore not be able to find consistency.

We'll build on this later.
#2 Trading educators

If you hear these things from any trading educator you need to find a new person to listen to.

"The market makers are taking my stops"
+ This means they have no idea why price just did what it did, this is victim mentality

"Price is going from 90 to 130, I'm in at 90!"
-> "We hit 100 I'm reducing half"
-> "We hit 105 I'm reducing again"
-> "We hit 115 I'm reducing more!"
-> "We hit 130! Took out my last piece!"

This means they had no idea price was going from 90 to 130, if they knew it was going to move 40$ they would've added to their trade the whole way.

Actions speak louder than predictions.
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May 13, 2025
A PNL doesn't matter for #TheStrat...

PNL reflects a person(s) ability to be profitable, but it has nothing to do with TheStrat being right or wrong.

#TheStrat is one of the few systems of technical analysis that is proven via 3 universal truths. These truths are indisputable [they're the truth!]

Lets dive in & show you why #TheStrat can't be disproven.

📚 THREADImage
Universal Truth #1

There's only 3 scenarios that can occur ever on any chart any market.

The definitions are laid out as followsImage
There is no scenario 4 so we know that we have successfully defined every move that can happen in any market. Image
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Apr 17, 2025
Most people have no idea why Christians are so head over heels for Jesus and think it's foolish.

In light of Easter this weekend lets break it down in a way that's easy to comprehend. Regardless of your belief or faith.
First, what is this "Good Friday?"

It is the day that Jesus died on the cross.

This is a historical fact & even most athiest scholars attest that this was a real historical event.

In Christianity this is believed as God showing up as a man--like a hand fills a glove, living a perfect life & accepting the suffering on the cross to show his love to the world and to offer forgiveness to every single person.

Including yourself.

We'll get to why God would even decide to do that in a second..
Now, why would God go through so much pain? Well the problem comes from the beginning of humanity.

Adam & Eve were tempted in the garden to eat from the tree of the knowledge of Good & Evil. They fell to this temptation & they ate from the tree.

The second they did this, they suddenly understood concepts like right and wrong, shame, and vulnerability.

They realized they were naked & hid themselves from God.Image
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